Unions object to some changes at Sun-Times

December 31, 2009

Among the financial obligations the owners of the new Sun-Times Media elected to leave with the vestigial parent of the Chicago Sun-Times and other area papers are the few hundred bucks a month owed a handful of former employees as part of their severance agreements, and the still-bankrupt part of the old company is trying to get out from under the contracts.

The Newspaper Guild and Chicago Typographical Union on Thursday filed an objection in Delaware bankruptcy court, saying the action -- which affects former Sun-Times columnist Dan Jedlicka among others -- should be disallowed because the exit packages should be protected because they were part of collectively bargained agreements.